This is to announce gzip-1.10, a stable release. There have been 19 commits by 2 people in the 51 weeks since 1.9, not to mention the 559 gnulib-related changes.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Jim Meyering (9)
Paul Eggert (10)
Jim [on behalf of the gzip maintainers]
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Here is the GNU gzip home page:
http://gnu.org/s/gzip/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gzip.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.10
or run this command from a git-cloned gzip directory:
git shortlog v1.9..v1.10
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Here are the compressed sources:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.10.tar.gz (1.2MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.10.tar.xz (760KB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.10.tar.gz.sig
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.10.tar.xz.sig
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify gzip-1.10.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69.197-b8fd7
Automake 1.16a
Gnulib v0.1-2305-g95c96b6dd
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NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.10 (2018-12-29) [stable]
** Changes in behavior
Compressed gzip output no longer contains the current time as a
timestamp when the input is not a regular file. Instead, the output
contains a null (zero) timestamp. This makes gzip's behavior more
reproducible when used as part of a pipeline. (As a reminder, even
regular files will use null timestamps after the year 2106, due to a
limitation in the gzip format.)
** Bug fixes
A use of uninitialized memory on some malformed inputs has been fixed.
[bug present since the beginning]
A few theoretical race conditions in signal handers have been fixed.
These bugs most likely do not happen on practical platforms.
[bugs present since the beginning]
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